Ashley Judd Learns Early On That Politics Is a Blood Sport

It’s known in baseball as the brushback pitch: a fastball high and inside to get a batter to back off the plate.

The big conservative super PAC American Crossroads just threw such a pitch at Ashley Judd, the TV and film star who appears to be mulling a 2014 run against Kentucky Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

In a mock ad purporting to tout her candidacy, Crossroads lampoons Ms. Judd as an Obama-loving uber-liberal who thinks Kentuckians are hillbillies and who actually claims to hail from Tennessee. The video uses clips of Ms. Judd saying things that might complicate a run in the generally conservative state of Kentucky.

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